It's the first snowfall....

of the season!  New England readers of this blog will have to forgive my excitement!  I know you had your fill of snow last winter, and many are not looking forward to the upcoming winter, but the two inches that fell last night looked so beautiful this morning.  Plus, it's been several years since we've had a snowy winter.  Our winter prediction is for warmer and drier than normal conditions, so two inches is cause for excitement!

I think the orchard trees look so pretty with a light dusting of snow.

And the red barn really stands out in the white snow.

The pumpkins look a little out of place in the snow!

A little more than "frost on the pumpkin".

Baxter always goes goofy with the first snow, running like crazy, scooping up snow with his nose as you can see here!

Leo isn't as anxious to play  in the snow as Baxter is.

Yesterday and Sunday we washed the outside of the house, under the porches.  The terrible wind storm last week made for a very dirty house.  The second story really needed to be done as well, but we had neither the time nor the energy for that.  The main floor looks wonderful, shiny and clean!

Reynald washes the siding and the porches and I follow up by washing all the windows.  My mom always says, "nothing cleans a house like freshly washed windows".  And she's right.  You don't really notice clean windows, but you sure do notice dirty ones.  Happy to have a whole house of clean windows, for a day or two at least!

Washing the north west side of the house.  You can see the frosty tree in the background.  This was a chilly job yesterday.

Everything was covered with dirt so Reyanld even washed the porch railing and the porch deck.